1. Preliminary
As a whole, our plane Alpha did well in the preliminary. Alpha could fall three relief goods and two of them came inside the flames. In the horizontal turn, except the moment that Alpha suddenly reduced its altitude, the turn was good.

2. Final
Soon after Alpha took off, it became clear that the motor didn’t work well, so Alpha couldn’t get enough thrust, and it fell accidentally, In no time, we brought it to the runway and made it take off again. We failed in falling relief goods. We tried the climbing turn, but it wasn’t accepted by the ref. However, Alpha succeeded in horizontal turn and automatic glide. Because of the problems of automatic control, Alpha didn’t succeed in eight shape turn. In automatic landing, Alpha approached well passing by the fan, but it didn’t come to the landing area, so our pilot switched to the manual control and Alpha returned.

We challenged the contest by the 3rd plane of Alpha. In fact, we used it for a month again and again. Therefore, probably the whole body was damaged little by little and the motor went wrong on the contest day. Also, the automatic system had some problem because we changed the motor just before the preliminary contest. By changing the motor,(of course, the model number was the same) a little different magnetism of the motor affected the censer of the geomagnetism. So, the right shape turn didn’t go well.

However, some of our efforts were surely recognized. We were given two prizes. One is Best Design Prize (by KYB). The main wing’s strength against twist was evaluated. The other is 3DExperiece Prize (by DASSAULT SYSTEMS). The design by CATIA was recognized by the evaluators.

If we had been alone, we couldn’t reach these good results. We want to say best gratitude to the people who helped us, especially great specialists in Suzuki/Tsuchiya laboratory. Thank you very much.

In fact, we are not satisfied with this results at all. We will continue the days holding sandpapers. See you next year.